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This woman is 'too attractive to work'

  • 20-05-2013 11:18PM
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,095 ✭✭✭Wurly


    http://www.heraldsun.com.au/business/worklife/london-woman-laura-fernee-says-shes-too-attractive-to-work/story-fni0d8zi-1226647294922

    "A LONDON woman says she has been unemployed for two years because her good looks caused "massive problems" in the workplace.

    Laura Fernee, who has a science PhD, says her last job was at a medical research lab where she earned £30,000 a year ($47,000) from 2008 until 2011.

    But Ms Fernee, 33, says she was left with no choice but to quit when comments from co-workers about her attractive physical appearance became too much.

    "I'm not lazy and I'm no bimbo," Ms Fernee told The Daily Mail.

    "The truth is my good looks have caused massive problems for me when it comes to employment, so I’ve made the decision that employment just isn’t for me at the moment. It's not my fault...I can’t help the way I look."

    She was "constantly asked out" and felt traumatised when men left "romantic gifts" on her desk.

    "Male colleagues were only interested in me for how I looked. I wanted them to recognise my achievements and my professionalism but all they saw was my face and body," she said.

    "Even when I was in a laboratory in scrubs with no make-up they still came on to me because of my natural attractiveness. There was nothing I could do to stop it."


    God, I know the feeling..:pac:


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Comments

  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 35,447 CMod ✭✭✭✭ShamoBuc


    I'd give her one!


























    A job...pervs!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,234 ✭✭✭Thwip!


    I expected this to be about Samantha Brick quitting her job....


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 7,944 Mod ✭✭✭✭Yakult


    Don't see the fuss tbh??


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,019 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    I used to think the same about my missus but it turns out I was wrong.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,770 ✭✭✭Jen Pigs Fly


    Shes got nothing on Samantha Brick


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,538 ✭✭✭flutterflye


    Looks like a transvestite to me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,813 ✭✭✭TPD


    I was fully expecting a picture of Samantha Brick, even after reading the different name.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,329 ✭✭✭Gran Hermano


    Looks like a slightly melted version of Michael Jackson..


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,234 ✭✭✭Thwip!


    The accent.... sheesh


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,238 ✭✭✭jiltloop


    She looks like Michael Jackson


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78 ✭✭str|ct9


    She looks a bit like Jacko.

    Blonde beside her is better looking


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,506 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    Since she has a PhD in Science, and judging by the stereotypical demograph drawn to science as a career, I can easily see how her looks could have been an issue.

    Although, I'm basing that conclusion on the Big Bang Theory.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,590 ✭✭✭theteal


    she looks a bit like michael jackson. . .towards the end


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,086 ✭✭✭Duiske


    She's only 33 ? Looks closer to 50. Not ageist tho, so yea, I would. :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,639 ✭✭✭Sugar Free


    TPD wrote: »
    I was fully expecting a picture of Samantha Brick, even after reading the different name.

    I know. Her force is so powerful it could nearly become the new Rickroll...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,313 ✭✭✭✭K-9


    Wurly wrote: »
    God, I know the feeling..:pac:

    Mod:

    Could you add a little more about the article please, as per the charter?

    Mad Men's Don Draper : What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    She's not too attractive for a day in the hill footing turf, no one is.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,366 ✭✭✭✭Kylo Ren




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 294 ✭✭JD DABA


    I think her Phd may not have been in science.......











    ..... but rather in marketing ...guffaw guffaw.

    Expect a book.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,549 ✭✭✭maryishere


    she is nothing special


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,743 ✭✭✭Wanderer2010


    I work with a load of women who are too ugly to work how come they never quit?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,687 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    Too fat for me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,814 ✭✭✭harry Bailey esq


    a career in prostitution or the adult film industry might suit,can never be too good looking for that gig:)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,793 ✭✭✭tritium


    Apparently her parents pay all her bills, including £1500 a month for designer clothes (from the daily mail- the paper that keeps on giving )

    Clearly she's not using the thesaurus propenly!

    Good looking is not an alternative expression for lazy, bone idle or spoilt


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,802 ✭✭✭beks101


    Can't stop staring at her horribly tweezed eyebrows


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,386 ✭✭✭Killer Wench


    I think she's rather beautiful. There is a stereotype that women in science tend to not be attractive, and this lady falls outside of that. And, as much as we hate to admit it, we tend to breath fire into these stereotypes. We buy into them. I can imagine that there were some co-workers who believed that she got that far because of her looks, and that there were some who openly questioned her intellect. I believe media reinforces the perspective that a woman is either pretty or she is smart. She should not be both. If it appears that she does hold both, then we look for the first opportunity to knock her off her place.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,538 ✭✭✭flutterflye


    I think she's rather beautiful. There is a stereotype that women in science tend to not be attractive, and this lady falls outside of that. And, as much as we hate to admit it, we tend to breath fire into these stereotypes. We buy into them. I can imagine that there were some co-workers who believed that she got that far because of her looks, and that there were some who openly questioned her intellect. I believe media reinforces the perspective that a woman is either pretty or she is smart. She should not be both. If it appears that she does hold both, then we look for the first opportunity to knock her off her place.

    Ha! Eh...what??!
    Well in fairness, it's hard to tell what she looks like when you can't take your eyes away from her horrid eyebrows!

    My sister in law is a scientist and she is very attractive (don't tell her I said that though), and I actually know, and know of a great many moderately to highly attractive girls/women in science.

    I've never been aware that there were such a stereotype - Vast majority of girls I am friends with now, and have been friends with in the past would be both attractive and intelligent.
    Really seems quite strange to me that there be a stereotype that suggests otherwise.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 515 ✭✭✭daithi1970


    God love her! either she's got serious delusions, or her erstwhile colleagues have low standards...maybe herself and Samantha Brick should form a support group

    daithi


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,232 ✭✭✭ITS_A_BADGER


    She has a really posh accent and shes releasing a book, parents are paying 3110 for rent and utilities and another $2330 on clothes. Not in the least bit sorry for her to be honest, probably just a publicity thing to get her book noticed


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,386 ✭✭✭Killer Wench


    Ha! Eh...what??!
    Well in fairness, it's hard to tell what she looks like when you can't take your eyes away from her horrid eyebrows!

    My sister in law is a scientist and she is very attractive (don't tell her I said that though), and I actually know, and know of a great many moderately to highly attractive girls/women in science.

    I've never been aware that there were such a stereotype - Vast majority of girls I am friends with now, and have been friends with in the past would be both attractive and intelligent.
    Really seems quite strange to me that there be a stereotype that suggests otherwise.

    I hear about it in Science, Engineering, and Technology.

    http://people.mills.edu/spertus/Gender/pap/node7.html

    http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/10/19/furor-over-male-scientists-facebook-post-about-female-scientists

    It could be an American stereotype because these fields are predominately male here.


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